Today's News

When given the choice between a coney from the Fairgrounds Drive-In or a meal of chicken nuggets, Holly Chrisman, 4, never hesitated.
“She wanted the coney from Fairgrounds,” said her mother Becky Meadows, who joined dozens Monday afternoon at the popular eatery on Broadway that had just reopened after being closed due to a New Year’s Eve fire.
The little girl wasn’t alone in her enthusiasm. Liz Marquardt said she was thrilled when she drove by and noticed that the original fast-food restaurant in Lawrenceburg was once again open.

Most fans would say there is no way that a basketball game that ends in a 54-3 final can be pretty.

People that follow the Anderson County Middle School girls' team would beg to differ, especially after the Lady Mustangs dismantled visiting Spencer County last Tuesday night. It would seem they find beauty in being like Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.

“Junkyard dogs,” was part of Anderson coach Clay Birdwhistell's tweet about the game.

Chicken Little will not be a welcomed guest around Anderson County football this week.

Yes, the Bearcats took a 47-23 whipping from a Bryan Station outfit that had lost 10 straight games.

And yes, the Bearcats played poorly over the last three quarters with four turnovers – three led to touchdowns and two came when the Bearcats were in scoring position – and a host of missed tackles. It was a performance far from the kind worthy of a team ranked as high as No. 4 in Class 5A statewide.

The news out of the Kentucky High School Athletic Association last week did not make many headlines, but it should have.

In case you missed it – and unless you are a true high school sports junkie, chances are you did – the KHSAA has changed its interpretation of Bylaw 25, which defines what a coach can and cannot do in the offseason for a particular sport. For the KHSAA, the offseason is the period during the school year outside of specific start and end dates for a specific sport.

The record will show that the Anderson County girls’ socccer team won one and lost two in the Fayette County Soccer Frenzy at Lexington’s Paul L. Dunbar High School last week. But it does not show how much the Lady Bearcats improved over the week, according to Anderson head coach Jason Earnest.

“We had been struggling as a team earlier in the week with teams that we should have beaten if we are playing well,” Earnest said after his team lost to eventual tournament champion Henry Clay in a 2-1 shootout Saturday morning.